Jeremiah 16:12-14

New Century Version

¹² But you have done even more evil than your ancestors. You are very stubborn and do only what you want to do; you have not obeyed me. ¹³ So I will throw you out of this country and send you into a land that you and your ancestors never knew. There you can serve other gods day and night, because I will not help you or show you any favors.’

¹⁴ “People say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the people of Israel out of Egypt . . . ’ But the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when people will not say this anymore.